High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! As a result of its
location in the path of major sea routes, Sri Lanka is a strategic
naval link between West Asia and South East Asia. It has also been
a center of the Buddhist religion and culture from ancient times
and is one of the few remaining abodes of Buddhism in South Asia,
including Ladakh, Bhutan and the Chittagong Hill Tracts, as well as
being a bastion of Hinduism. The Sinhalese community forms the
majority of the population; Tamils, who are concentrated in the
north and east of the island, form the largest ethnic minority.
Other communities include Moors, Burghers, Kaffirs, Malays and the
indigenous Vedda people.